I hope it includes the classic Every Sperm Is Sacred from The Meaning Of Life...
There are Jews in the world. There are Buddhists. There are Hindus and Mormons, and then There are those that follow Mohammed, but I've never been one of them.
I'm a Roman Catholic, And have been since before I was born, And the one thing they say about Catholics is: They'll take you as soon as you're warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer. You don't have to have a great brain. You don't have to have any clothes on. You're A Catholic the moment Dad came,
Because... Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Let the heathen spill theirs On the dusty ground. God shall make them pay for Each sperm that can't be found.
Every sperm is wanted. Every sperm is good. Every sperm is needed In your neighbourhood.
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon, Spill theirs just anywhere, But God loves those who treat their Semen with more care.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God get quite irate.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is good. Every sperm is needed. In your neighbourhood!
Every sperm is useful. Every sperm is fine. God needs everybody's. Mine! And mine! And mine!
Let the Pagan spill theirs O'er mountain, hill, and plain. God shall strike them down for Each sperm that's spilt in vain.
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is good, Every sperm is needed, In your neighbourhood.
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great, If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite iraaaaaate!
"the world's development has been guided by Parusha, the spirit of the universe, and that life was created when it broke up."
or even better, talk about Audhumla from Norse mythology.
Audumla was the primeval cow who came into existence at the beginning of time through shaping of the melted Ginnungagap ice. She lived off the Niflheim ice, licking pieces of salt and hoar frost as the ice melted upon contact with the hot air from Muspell. The frost giant Ymir lived off of her milk.
While licking the ice, Audumla revealed the shape of a man underneath; she eventually licked him free. This was the god Buri, who later fathered Bor, father of Odin, Vili and Ve.
Cool eh? - a creation theory involving a space cow. Not sure if it counts as "Intelligent" Design though:)
I wasn't actually, but it's interesting to see that before you posted that I had been modded "interesting", and afterwards I was modded "troll". Guess it shows how suggestible mods are...
This blog entry from Paul Thurrott (from WinInfo) says: "This one's bizarre, but we heard at lunch today that Apple is unhappy with the PowerPC production at IBM and will be switching to Intel-compatible chips this very year. Yeah, seriously."
I just thought I'd mention it to see what everyones reponses are - I didn't see anyone pick up on it in the earlier/. post about Microsofts Longhorn Beta...
"OS X has a near perfect user interface designed by actual HID experts"
There's no such thing as a perfect user interface. Apple should give users as much flexibility as possible since everyone has different usage styles. There's an interesting article from a frustrated Mac user here (read the section titled "Switcher Stories").
Stop using KDE, GNOME and apps that use qt or GTK and switch to a lightweight window manager and apps that use the lighter toolkits and your system will fly along. This should demonstrate that the problem is not with X but higher up the GUI stack.
Yeah, I know about that, I was thinking of something more like what the Amiga used to do whereby clicking on a window would not bring it to the front, and a windows Z-order could only be changed by clicking on a button on its titlebar - very useful once you got used to it...
Each to their own I spose, but why would you want to keep string lengths under a certain length?
The only argument I could think of as to why people would want to use non-proportional fonts is so that they can line up text after non-whitespace characters on a line. IMHO this is a small price to pay for the increased readibility and better use of space. I suppose they're good for ASCII art though...
Get MS to untie us from the Windows "window manager" so that we can run 3rd party ones or write our own. I'd love to get rid of the raise-on-focus policy (if anyone knows how to do this I'd love to know about it)...
I like to bash MS as well, but Georgia and (especially) Verdana are lovely (read more here). Verdana-Regular-8 is a great non-antialiased font that I use for everything (including coding).
An aside - why do so many coders insist on using non-proportional fonts in their editor of choice (we've come a long way from text-mode displays)? Proportional fonts are more readable and take up less horizontal space on the screen. Try it!
"UT2004/Doom 3 are certainly safe, since they are actively maintained; but no one will recompile Civ CTP, HLDS and other unmaintained programs."
Ahh, lovely closed source programs. Seriously though, many people in linux-land assume that because it's a FOSS OS everything can just be recompiled and changes to the ABI don't matter. They forget that there are a few progs (mostly games) that are closed source and will most likely never be recompiled.
"Stupid Slashdot not having an edit button... that's a usability problem."
I know you were probably joking, but Slashdot does this to prevent you from completely changing a post after people have replied to it or moderated it. Just imagine what kinds of tricks the trolls would get up to...
Not quite the same, but some interfaces change the pointer to a thin "I" shape when it passes over text. This way the text can still be read but the mouse pointer is not completely hidden (it can be hard to see sometimes IMHO).
A normal sized semi-transparent or inverse pointer is probably the best solution, although your idea sounds like more fun:)
"15. Dialogs themselves are not modal: they let you continue to use the parent window. This allows such nonsensical situations as a "Save as JPEG" dialog for a Gimp image that no longer exists, and a Print dialog for a Web page that is no longer open or even still in Firefox's cache."
Fair enough, but sometimes dialog boxes should be modeless (a find/replace dialog box in a text editor for instance). Remember Larry Tessler (from Apple and PARC) used to wear a t-shirt saying "DON'T MODE ME IN" - in general, modal interfaces (including dialog boxes) suck. They have their place but noone who knows anything about user interfaces should make such a blanket statement.
"16. The mouse pointer does not hide itself when it is stationary and I start using the keyboard. As a result, it frequently gets in the way of what I am typing or reading."
Hiding the mouse pointer completely is usually a pretty stupid idea. It's quicker for the user to move the pointer out of the way than it is to find a hidden pointer when they need to use the mouse again...
I have no idea what the job market's like in India, but one of the best incentives to work hard and behave ones self is to offer glowing refernces to those who conduct themselves honestly. As many people have already pointed out there's very little you can do to prevent ideas leaking from your company.
An aside: If companies could wipe employees memory when they left, every new hire would have as much experience as a graduate straight out of uni...
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I hope it includes the classic Every Sperm Is Sacred from The Meaning Of Life...
There are Jews in the world. There are Buddhists. There are Hindus and Mormons, and then There are those that follow Mohammed, but I've never been one of them.
I'm a Roman Catholic, And have been since before I was born, And the one thing they say about Catholics is: They'll take you as soon as you're warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer. You don't have to have a great brain. You don't have to have any clothes on. You're A Catholic the moment Dad came,
Because... Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Let the heathen spill theirs On the dusty ground. God shall make them pay for Each sperm that can't be found.
Every sperm is wanted. Every sperm is good. Every sperm is needed In your neighbourhood.
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon, Spill theirs just anywhere, But God loves those who treat their Semen with more care.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God get quite irate.
Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is good. Every sperm is needed. In your neighbourhood!
Every sperm is useful. Every sperm is fine. God needs everybody's. Mine! And mine! And mine!
Let the Pagan spill theirs O'er mountain, hill, and plain. God shall strike them down for Each sperm that's spilt in vain.
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is good, Every sperm is needed, In your neighbourhood.
Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great, If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite iraaaaaate!
"the world's development has been guided by Parusha, the spirit of the universe, and that life was created when it broke up."
:)
or even better, talk about Audhumla from Norse mythology.
Audumla was the primeval cow who came into existence at the beginning of time through shaping of the melted Ginnungagap ice. She lived off the Niflheim ice, licking pieces of salt and hoar frost as the ice melted upon contact with the hot air from Muspell. The frost giant Ymir lived off of her milk.
While licking the ice, Audumla revealed the shape of a man underneath; she eventually licked him free. This was the god Buri, who later fathered Bor, father of Odin, Vili and Ve.
Cool eh? - a creation theory involving a space cow. Not sure if it counts as "Intelligent" Design though
"it could be alians"
Hmm, interesting idea... Now, if you don't mind, I've got to finish designing this fjord.
Don't you mean 616? :D
"having files in multiple folders"
Sounds interesting, could you ellaborate about this? I haven't heard it mentioned before.
I wasn't actually, but it's interesting to see that before you posted that I had been modded "interesting", and afterwards I was modded "troll". Guess it shows how suggestible mods are...
This blog entry from Paul Thurrott (from WinInfo) says:
/. post about Microsofts Longhorn Beta...
"This one's bizarre, but we heard at lunch today that Apple is unhappy with the PowerPC production at IBM and will be switching to Intel-compatible chips this very year. Yeah, seriously."
I just thought I'd mention it to see what everyones reponses are - I didn't see anyone pick up on it in the earlier
"OS X has a near perfect user interface designed by actual HID experts"
There's no such thing as a perfect user interface. Apple should give users as much flexibility as possible since everyone has different usage styles. There's an interesting article from a frustrated Mac user here (read the section titled "Switcher Stories").
Stop using KDE, GNOME and apps that use qt or GTK and switch to a lightweight window manager and apps that use the lighter toolkits and your system will fly along. This should demonstrate that the problem is not with X but higher up the GUI stack.
Why don't you do something instead of moaning. Off the top of my head I can think of loads of window managers that are trying new things.
21. Sun's Looking Glass Project."
Take a look at the Croquet Project. It's trying to do the same sort of thing but without the Sun/Java headache.
Nope, that's a shell (explorer.exe replacement).
Yeah, I know about that, I was thinking of something more like what the Amiga used to do whereby clicking on a window would not bring it to the front, and a windows Z-order could only be changed by clicking on a button on its titlebar - very useful once you got used to it...
Each to their own I spose, but why would you want to keep string lengths under a certain length?
The only argument I could think of as to why people would want to use non-proportional fonts is so that they can line up text after non-whitespace characters on a line. IMHO this is a small price to pay for the increased readibility and better use of space. I suppose they're good for ASCII art though...
Get MS to untie us from the Windows "window manager" so that we can run 3rd party ones or write our own. I'd love to get rid of the raise-on-focus policy (if anyone knows how to do this I'd love to know about it)...
"Install some decent fonts"
I like to bash MS as well, but Georgia and (especially) Verdana are lovely (read more here). Verdana-Regular-8 is a great non-antialiased font that I use for everything (including coding).
An aside - why do so many coders insist on using non-proportional fonts in their editor of choice (we've come a long way from text-mode displays)? Proportional fonts are more readable and take up less horizontal space on the screen. Try it!
"UT2004/Doom 3 are certainly safe, since they are actively maintained; but no one will recompile Civ CTP, HLDS and other unmaintained programs."
Ahh, lovely closed source programs. Seriously though, many people in linux-land assume that because it's a FOSS OS everything can just be recompiled and changes to the ABI don't matter. They forget that there are a few progs (mostly games) that are closed source and will most likely never be recompiled.
"I work in technical support. ... Most people have no clue how to use windows."
You don't think that your sample group is self selecting perhaps?
"Stupid Slashdot not having an edit button... that's a usability problem."
I know you were probably joking, but Slashdot does this to prevent you from completely changing a post after people have replied to it or moderated it. Just imagine what kinds of tricks the trolls would get up to...
Not quite the same, but some interfaces change the pointer to a thin "I" shape when it passes over text. This way the text can still be read but the mouse pointer is not completely hidden (it can be hard to see sometimes IMHO).
:)
A normal sized semi-transparent or inverse pointer is probably the best solution, although your idea sounds like more fun
To elaborate, modeless dialog boxes are almost always preferable to modal dialog boxes, but they should close when the parent window closes.
"15. Dialogs themselves are not modal: they let you continue to use the parent window. This allows such nonsensical situations as a "Save as JPEG" dialog for a Gimp image that no longer exists, and a Print dialog for a Web page that is no longer open or even still in Firefox's cache."
Fair enough, but sometimes dialog boxes should be modeless (a find/replace dialog box in a text editor for instance). Remember Larry Tessler (from Apple and PARC) used to wear a t-shirt saying "DON'T MODE ME IN" - in general, modal interfaces (including dialog boxes) suck. They have their place but noone who knows anything about user interfaces should make such a blanket statement.
"16. The mouse pointer does not hide itself when it is stationary and I start using the keyboard. As a result, it frequently gets in the way of what I am typing or reading."
Hiding the mouse pointer completely is usually a pretty stupid idea. It's quicker for the user to move the pointer out of the way than it is to find a hidden pointer when they need to use the mouse again...
"Caps Lock: Please include a way to easily disable this useless key."
I always do this on whatever OS I'm using. This page is pretty useful...
"you can always copy code using a pen and paper"
That's the "analog hole" - another good reason why DRM and the like will ultimately fail.
I have no idea what the job market's like in India, but one of the best incentives to work hard and behave ones self is to offer glowing refernces to those who conduct themselves honestly. As many people have already pointed out there's very little you can do to prevent ideas leaking from your company.
An aside: If companies could wipe employees memory when they left, every new hire would have as much experience as a graduate straight out of uni...